Shankar
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Shankar or Shamkar is a Sanskrit
noun, and means "Beneficent" or "Giver of Bliss".
It generally refers to a Hindu descriptions of one of the chief gods, Lord Shiva
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It may also refer to:
. It generally refers to:
Shankar is also the given name or family name of the following individuals:
The name "Shankar" exists in the Sanskrit
language and is not related to the colloquial Tamil
word "Sankar" which means cyclone.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...
noun, and means "Beneficent" or "Giver of Bliss".
It generally refers to a Hindu descriptions of one of the chief gods, Lord Shiva
Shiva
Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...
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It may also refer to:
People
Shankar is a common name in IndiaIndia
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It generally refers to:
- ShivaShivaShiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...
, HinduHinduHindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...
god who is referred to by numerous names - Adi ShankaraAdi ShankaraAdi Shankara Adi Shankara Adi Shankara (IAST: pronounced , (Sanskrit: , ) (788 CE - 820 CE), also known as ' and ' was an Indian philosopher from Kalady of present day Kerala who consolidated the doctrine of advaita vedānta...
, HinduHinduHindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...
philosopher (guru) of Advaita circa ninth century - in Brahma Kumaris religion where it means bodiless state of soulSoulA soul in certain spiritual, philosophical, and psychological traditions is the incorporeal essence of a person or living thing or object. Many philosophical and spiritual systems teach that humans have souls, and others teach that all living things and even inanimate objects have souls. The...
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Shankar is also the given name or family name of the following individuals:
- Members of the family of Indian musicians/dancers of whom the most well known are
- Uday ShankarUday ShankarUday Shankar , the pioneer of modern dance in India, and a world renowned Indian dancer and choreographer, was most known for adapting Western theatrical techniques to traditional Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, thus laying the roots of...
(1900–1977), classical dancer - Ravi ShankarRavi ShankarRavi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...
(born 1920), sitar player - Geethali Norah Jones ShankarNorah JonesNorah Jones is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress.In 2002, she launched her solo music career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album Come Away With Me, which was certified a diamond album in 2002, selling over 20 million copies...
(Norah Jones, born 1979), American singer-songwriter - Anoushka ShankarAnoushka ShankarAnoushka Shankar is a British Indian sitar player and composer who lives between the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. She is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and Sukanya Shankar...
(born 1981), Indian sitar player and composer in the United States. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player, and Sukanya Rajan, a bank employee. Through her father, she is the half-sister of Grammy Award winner Norah Jones - Ananda ShankarAnanda ShankarAnanda Shankar was a Bengali musician best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. He was married to Tanusree Shankar.-Early life:...
(1942–1999), Bengali musician best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. He was married to Tanusree Shankar - Mamata ShankarMamata ShankarMamata Shankar is an actress in the Bengali language film industry of India. She has acted in films by renowned film directors including, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Rituparno Ghosh, Buddhadev Dasgupta and Gautam Ghosh...
(born 1955), actress in the Bengali language film industry of India - Shankar (actor)Shankar (actor)Shankar Panikkar, popularly known as Shankar is an Indian film actor and director. He was one of the prominent lead actors of Malayalam cinema during the 1980s.- As an Actor :...
a (South, born 1960), Indian Film actor
- Uday Shankar
- Colonel Shankar, the nom de guerre of Vaithilingam Sornalingam of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
- Shankar MahadevanShankar MahadevanShankar Mahadevan is an Indian music composer and singer. He is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that composes for Indian films and a playback singer.-Early life:...
, singer and part of the Shankar-Ehsaan-LoyShankar-Ehsaan-LoyShankar–Ehsaan–Loy are an Indian musical trio consisting of Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa. Record producers, musicians and multi-instrumentalists, they have composed music for over fifty soundtrack across four languages...
music-director trio - Shankar, part of the Shankar JaikishanShankar JaikishanShankar Jaikishan , also known as S/J, is an Indian music composer duo in the Hindi film industry, working together from 1949–1971....
music-director duo - K. Shankar PillaiK. Shankar PillaiKesava Shankara Pillai , better known as Shankar, was an Indian cartoonist. He is considered as the father of political cartooning in India...
(1902–1989), Indian cartoonist- Shankar's Weekly, a magazine founded by him
- Shankar's International Dolls MuseumShankar's International Dolls MuseumThe International Dolls Museum is a large collection of dolls in Delhi, India. It was set up by K. Shankar Pillai, a political cartoonist. Housed in the Children's Book Trust building on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, accessed through a separate entrance, a winding staircase, leading up to a foyer. The...
, New Delhi
- L. ShankarL. ShankarLakshminarayanan Shankar, also known as L. Shankar and Shenkar, is an Indian-born American violinist, singer and composer.-Early life:...
(born 1950), Indian violinist - Mani Shankar MukherjeeMani Shankar MukherjeeShankar, real name Mani Shankar Mukherjee, and generally known in English-language literature as Sankar is a very popular writer in the Bengali language...
, Bengali writer popularly known as Shankar - Mani ShankarMani ShankarMani Shankar is a Bollywood director, best known for his direction of Hindi films such as 16 December, Rudraksh, and, Tango Charlie Mukhbir and Knockout....
, Indian film-maker - Ravi Shankar (poet)Ravi Shankar (poet)Ravi Shankar is an American poet. He was raised in Manassas, VA. He is the poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University and the founding editor of the online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat. His first book, Instrumentality, was published by Cherry Grove in May 2004, and was a...
, poet and faculty member of Central Connecticut State University - Ramamurti ShankarRamamurti ShankarRamamurti Shankar is the John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. His research is in theoretical condensed matter physics, although he is also known for his earlier work in theoretical particle physics...
, physicist - S. ShankarS. ShankarShankar is an Indian film director and producer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. He made his directional debut in Gentleman for which he was awarded the Filmfare Best Director Award...
(born 1963), Tamil film director - Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi ShankarRavi Shankar usually known as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, born Ravi Shankar Ratnam, born 13 May 1956) is a spiritual leader and founder of the Art of Living Foundation , which aims at relieving individual stress, societal problems and violence. It is an NGO with UNESCO consultative status...
, guru and founder of the Art of Living movement - Shankar Party unofficial name given to the Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya
- Shankar LamichhaneShankar LamichhaneShankar Lamichhane was a Nepalese writer who introduced stream-of-consciousness into Nepalese literature.Shankar Lamichhane panchamool one arghaundi suangja nepal...
, Nepalese Essayist - Shankar Vedantam, Author and Journalist
- Shankar Dayal SharmaShankar Dayal SharmaShankar Dayal Sharma was the ninth President of India serving from 1992 to 1997. Prior to his presidency, Dr Sharma had been the eighth Vice President of India, serving under President Ramaswamy Venkataraman...
(1918–1999), ninth President of India serving from 1992 to 1997 - Shankar NagarShankar NagarShankar Nagar is a village development committee in Rupandehi District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 9466 people living in 1694 individual households....
- Naren ShankarNaren ShankarNaren Shankar is a writer, producer and director of several television series. As a writer Shankar has contributed with works for Farscape, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Night Visions, The Outer Limits, The Chronicle, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, seaQuest 2032, and Star Trek: Voyager.After...
, writer, producer and director of several television series - Virendra Dev Dixit, leader of Prajapita Brahma Kumaris religion.
- Adrian ShankarAdrian ShankarAdrian Anton Shankar is an English cricketer. Shankar is a right-handed batsman and occasional off-spin bowler. He was born on Ascot, Berkshire and educated at Bedford School during his childhood...
, English cricketer
The name "Shankar" exists in the Sanskrit
Sanskrit
Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...
language and is not related to the colloquial Tamil
Tamil language
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
word "Sankar" which means cyclone.
Technology
- Shankar's VirusShankar's VirusShankar's Virus is a Polymorphic Computer Virus that infects Microsoft Word documents and templates. It was discovered June 3, 1999. It was created by Sam Rogers.-Effects:...
, a computer virus that infects word documents